Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1883 — Know Your Business Thoroughly. [ARTICLE]

Know Your Business Thoroughly.

A young man in a leather store usedt to feel very impatient with his employer for keeping him, year after yeax, handling hides. But he saw the use jeers after when in an establishment of xris<own l»e was able to tell by the touch the exact quality of the goods. It was only bjr those thousands of repetitions tha t the lesson was learned: and so it -is with everything in which we acquire .skill. The half-informed, the half-skilled, in every business outnumber the others, dozens to one. Daniel Webster ot ice replied to a young man who asked h im if there was any room in the legal pi o session. M There is always room at tl top.** The better your business, th better your chance to rise. You ca gather much information by making wise use of your eyes and ears, and pet haps be able to surprise your employ* in an emergency by stepping into th* *• next man’s " place, and discharging b I duties satisfactorily; so, learn your £usi We would guard the young againis i the use of every word that is not strictlj ’ proper. Use no profane expression,, allude to no sentence that will put tq > blush the most sensitive. You know noi * the tendency of habitually using indecent or profane language. It may never be obliterated from your heart. When you grow up, you may find at your tongue’s end some expression which you would not use for any money. It was used when quite young. Good men have been taken sick and become deliri.ous. In these moments they use the most vile, indecent language imaginable. When informed of it after their restoration to health, they had no idea of the ■pain they had caused. They had learned and repeated the expressions in childhood; and, though years had passed sinoe, they had been indelibly stamped upon the heart. Think of this, you who are tempted to use improper language, and never disgrace yourself or your friends.